Single-Player Maps High Scores and Strategy

[DTaeKim]

This topic covers the strategies and scores for the campaign and trial maps.

Bold indicates that the listed player has found the maximum score and/or strategy.

C1 - Days of Ruin
1st - ALAKTORN - 4 days - 362 pts

C2 - A Single Life
1st - swifty - 4 days - 419 pts

C3 - Freehaven
1st - Translucent Air - 5 days - 400 pts

C4 - Moving On
1st - ALAKTORN - 2 days - 378 pts

C5 - New Allies
1st - -STL- - 5 days - 448 pts

C6 - Fear Experiment
1st - swifty - 9 days - 425 pts

C7 - A Kind of Home
1st - Blackbird - 5 days - 399 pts

C8 - A New Threat
1st - swifty - 7 days - 429 pts

C9 - The Beast
1st - DTaeKim - 5 days - 416 pts

C10 - Almost Home
1st - aznweirdo718 - 7 days - 432 pts

C11 - A Storm Brews
1st - Translucent Air - 5 days - 406 pts

C12 - History of Hate
1st - ALAKTORN - 3 days - 388 pts

C13 - Greyfield Strikes
1st - swifty - 7 days - 448 pts

C14 - A Hero's Farewell
1st - swifty - 9 days - 450 pts

C15 - Icy Retreat
1st - ALAKTORN - 7 days - 450 pts

C16 - Hope Rising
1st - swifty - 8 days - 450 pts

C17 - The Creeper
1st - -STL- - 5 days - 450 pts

C18 - Panic in the Ranks
1st - swifty - 4 days - 365 pts

C19 - Salvation
1st - swifty - 3 days - 440 pts

C20 - Waylon Flies Again
1st - swifty - 10 days - 450 pts

C21 - Lin's Gambit
1st - swifty - 8 days - 446 pts
2nd - ALAKTORN - 9 days - 430 pts

C22 - The Great Owl
1st - swifty - 10 days - 433 pts
2nd - ALAKTORN - 13 days - 413 pts
3rd - thecockcrew - 17 days - 396 pts

C23 - Sacrificial Lamb
1st - swifty - 9 days - 440 pts
2nd - ALAKTORN - 8 days - 418 pts
3rd - thecockcrew - 8 days - 399 pts

C24 - Crash Landing
1st - aznweirdo - 5 days - 450 pts

C25 - Lab Rats
1st - -STL- 13 days - 437 pts
2nd - ALAKTORN - 13 days - 407 pts
3rd - DTaeKim - 14 days - 402 pts

C26 - Sunrise
1st - -STL- - 5 days - 444 pts

T1 - Extreme Edge
1st - ALAKTORN - 7 days - 430 pts

T2 - Shade Coast
1st - Translucent Air - 7 days - 450 pts

T3 - Feline Basin
1st - GipFace - 5 days - 450 pts

T4 - Metro Island
1st - ALAKTORN - 6 days - 450 pts

T5 - Eerie Lake
1st - Blackbird - 7 days - 450 pts

T6 - Clear Island
1st - swifty - 6 days - 450 pts

T7 - Tatter River
1st - STL - 11 days - 450 pts

T8 - D-Island
1st - swifty - 7 days - 450 pts

T9 - Hourglass
1st - Translucent Air - 6 days - 445 pts

T10 - Blade Isles
1st - Translucent Air - 7 days - 450 pts

T11 - Star Islands
1st - GipFace - 9 days - 410 pts

T12 - Intricate Map
1st - swifty - 7 days - 450 pts

T13 - V for Victory!
1st - Lee Eric Kirwan - 5 days - 450 pts

T14 - Fragment Isles
1st - Morph-O-Ray - 13 days - 450 pts

T15 - Jay Islands
1st - swifty - 25 days - 450 pts

T16 - Pentagram
1st - Translucent Air - 7 days - 441 pts

T17 - Coast Assault
1st - Kireato - 3 days - 418 pts

T18 - Cat Island
1st - GipFace - 6 days - 450 pts

T19 - Ground Clash
1st - swifty - 6 days - 450 pts

T20 - Slime Cove
1st - swifty - 5 days - 450 pts

T21 - Duo Falls
1st - swifty - 7 days - 450 pts

T22 - Peril Maze
1st - -STL- 9 days - 450 pts

T23 - Metro Map
1st - BeefCarnival - 9 days - 450 pts

T24 - Wedding Ring
1st - ALAKTORN - 7 days - 450 pts

T25 - Land's End
1st - swifty - 8 days - 450 pts

T26 - Bounty River
1st - -STL- - 14 days - 450 pts

T27 - Time Map
1st - -STL- - 8 days - 448 pts

T28 - Plasma Bubble
1st - Dragon Fogel - 5 days - 450 pts

T29 - Triangle Lake
1st - Dragon Fogel - 11 days - 431 pts

T30 - Destiny Ocean
1st - ALAKTORN - 7 days - 450 pts

T31 - Comb Map
1st - swifty - 18 days - 450 pts

T32 - Resistance
1st - STL - 5 days - 432 pts
2nd - swifty - 5 days - 430 pts
3rd - ALAKTORN - 7 days - 405 pts

T33 - Missile
1st - Xagor - 4 days - 443 pts

T34 - Web River
1st - -STL- - 15 days - 450 pts

T35 - Center River
1st - Dragon Fogel - 5 days - 450 pts

T36 - Mountain Pass
1st - DTaeKim - 6 days - 375 pts

T37 - Fire & Water
1st - Astrohawke18 - 6 days - 450 pts

T38 - Whirl Peaks
1st - Blackbird - 11 days - 450 pts

[GipFace]

T1 - Extreme Edge
EDIT: My score sucks.

[Dragon Fogel]

My scores aren't that great so far, but here they are anyways.

T17: Coast Assault - 6 days - 329

Predeployed, simple enough.

T29: Triangle Lake - 16 days - 199

This is the first one unlocked, and I did a lousy job on it. Only a C-Rank, albeit just barely.

T35: Center River - 5 days - 300

(Unlocked by clearing T36.)

Rush the HQ with a Rig and infantry. Easy S-Rank, but going for a better score will make it harder.

T36: Mountain Pass - 8 days - 262

It's easy to get an HQ capture here, the AI moves basically everything away. That's what I did here, but it was only worth an A-Rank in the end.

T37: Fire & Water - 6 days - 300

One infantry takes the HQ by foot. >_<

T38: Whirl Peaks - 29 days - 300

No, this wasn't another super-quick HQ capture, the scores just ended up adding to 300 on the dot. Winning is easy enough, build a mech first turn and move it south. You can stop the AI from ever getting an airport. The rest was just taking as much property as possible and sending a Bomber swarm to dispose of AAs.

[GipFace]

T37 - Fire & Water
(EDIT: Better strategy below)

[Treedweller]

Since no one else has a better score, I might as well post this one for now:

T29 Triangle Lake
Treedweller ~ 12 Days ~ 281 pts

Uh, I just played with their ranges and advanced rather slowly for the map's size. I definitely could've done better, because I was rather sloppy at the end.

[DTaeKim]

Surprise! Bounty River is BACK.

You unlock the map when you complete T27. T28 is also unlocked when you finish.

[GipFace]

T3 - Feline Basin
(EDIT: scratch that, better strat below!)

[Dragon Fogel]

T24: Wedding Ring - 11 days - 378

Basically I messed around until I had a chance to destroy the AI's B-Copter with my own, then drop off on the HQ. There's a mountain to the west and the infantry will take care of themselves, so that's all there is to it.

Clearing this unlocks T23: Metro Map.

[GipFace]

T13 - V for Victory! (This one's too cute, the three clones go at it~)
8/412
Speed 120
Power 149 (whaaaat)
Technique 143

Attach Isabella to the infantry on day 2, then let them come to you by having this wall: mech, mech, infantry, arty, mech, mech. Eventually you'll get her CO power and you can smash face.

It is technically possible to clear this on day 7 because one of the stupid infantries ran away from me. Ugh. But then I got 7/410 because both power and technique dropped (but my speed went up to 130).

[GipFace]

T3 - Feline Basin
5/450 (Oh yeah, baby! First 450!)

This is beaten with only 4 bikes.

Day 1 - 2 bikes
Day 2 - Move 2 bikes up, build 2 bikes
Day 3 - Cap HQ, move other bike above or below it, attach CO to one of the new bikes, move both new bikes up
Day 4 - Cap, join injured bikes, use new bikes to destroy both infantry
Day 5 - Destroy infantry with free bike, cap!

Pretty easy, huh?

[Dragon Fogel]

I just tried that out and it works. Nice job!

[DTaeKim]

That was confirmed on GameFAQs, I believe.

[Dragon Fogel]

T13: V for Victory! - 9 days - 339

110 Speed, 100 Power, 129 Technique, for the record.

Loaded my CO into the infantry and basically messed around from there.

For the record, clearing this unlocks T12: Intricate Map and T20: Slime Cove.

Edit:

T20: Slime Cove - 8 days - 270

0 Power, 120 Speed, 150 Technique. Basically, I rushed an infantry in a Gunboat and then built a Battleship ASAP. Move the gunboat into the enemy battleship's blind spot and draw its fire with your battleship to safely drop off.

This unlocks T19: Ground Clash, T21: Duo Falls (it's back!), and T27: Time Map.

Edit 2:

T27: Time Map - 16 days - 247

120 Speed, 65 Power, 62 Technique.

The basic idea is - you and Yellow have 7 Mechs each, while Blue and Black each have 10 War Tanks.

And there are a TON of silos. Also, it's Fog of War, and free-for-all.

So, basically, launch silos and hope you come out the winner after the dust settles. Between you and Yellow, you can seriously cut down on the number of War Tanks in play. There's probably a better way of doing this, I'll try again some other time.

As DTaeKim said earlier, this unlocks T26: Bounty River (not this one again!) and T28: Plasma Bubble.

[GipFace]

T37 - Fire and Water
(EDIT: no, there's an even better strat on page 2!)

[GipFace]

I just had to play Slime Cove after you, Dragon Fogel.

T20 - Slime Cove
EDIT: Obsoleted by the 5-day rout

[Dragon Fogel]

T28: Plasma Bubble - 20 days - 361

97 Speed, 114 Power, 150 Technique

It's just a matter of maneuvering around the plasma and destroying dangerous units with the anti-tank gun. Where necessary, use the War Tank to finish the job. I moved the Bike to the HQ on Day 1 so I could load Isabella in, which proved quite useful.

Easy map overall.

[Dragon Fogel]

It occurs to me that unlocking T34 is going to take a while. T35 doesn't unlock it, so evidently we have to go around the map the other way.

I wonder what map it is, and what we have to go through to get there.

[GipFace]

T19 - Ground Clash
EDIT: My score sucks.

[Dragon Fogel]

T12: Intricate Map - 8 days - 300

150 Speed, 0 Power, 150 Technique

Build Mechs and cross the mountains to the HQ. Make the first one a CO Unit for the added defense. Just keep capturing and joining until you win.

It seems that kills by a Veteran/CO unit don't count for Power. Either that or counterattacks don't. I took out three infantry by counters, but got 0 Power.

Clearing this map unlocks T11: Star Islands.

[GipFace]

T18 - Cat Island
6/450 (Second 450!)

This one is an HQ rush done the way that only Tabitha can do.

Day 1 - SE base rig
Day 2 - Rig 1N 2E, SE base infantry
Day 3 - Load infantry into rig, rig 6E, SE base tank
Day 4 - Attach Tabitha to tank, destroy bike (yes she owns!), Rig 2E 2N 1W unload W
Day 5 - Begin cap. If Tasha built an artillery at her S base, destroy it with the tank. Otherwise, destroy the tank that attacked rig with the tank (yes her tank one-hit kills enemy tanks!)
Day 6 - Destroy infantry with tank, finish cap

Buh-roken.

Clearing this unlocks T11 Star Islands and T25 Land's End! I wonder if you'll need to clear T25 in 12 days, hahaha...

[Dragon Fogel]

I tied you on Ground Clash. (For the curious, beating it unlocks T18: Cat Island.)

Trying out your Cat Island strategy now.

Edit: Yeah, did that. Looks like it wasn't destroying things with the CO unit that got me 0 Power on Intricate Map...

Also, apparently Star Islands can be unlocked in two ways. Missed your mention of it when I first read your post.

And it looks like Land's End is the first obviously necessary link in the chain leading to the elusive T34. Well, this should be fun.

[GipFace]

T25 - Land's End
EDIT: My score sucks.

[dragonite]

Any comments on overal difficulty?
This seems harder then the war room by far,however you don't have to clear a misson with an absoluty awkward co anymore...

[GipFace]

The "fair" war-room style maps are harder because the AI has improved. Then you have unorthodox predeployed maps like T27 Time Map.

On the flip side, you have some HQ rush maps which are easier than Spann Island, like T3 Feline Basin.

The 300 bar seems like too easy of a target because Dragon Fogel and I don't seem to have much trouble getting the minimum. We should aim for 350 or 400 point S-ranks. It has already been proven that some maps cannot have 450 (like T20 Slime Cove), but I believe that every map can at least have 350 in the hands of a skilled player. Name it S+ or S++ or something.

[Dragon Fogel]

Personally, I like to think of it as an S+ if you get at least 100 on all three categories. You have to keep track of that yourself, though.

Also, on my test run on Land's End, I *almost* had an open HQ capture; if I'd been able to get one space closer with my T-Copter I would have made it.

In other news: Another 450! Takes some luck, though.

T12: Intricate Map - 8 days - 450

Built four mechs (only needed three, though), then an anti-air. Capture HQ with the mechs. Load CO into the anti-air and use it to destroy a bike and infantry.

For this to work, you want Greyfield to build an infantry the day before you capture the HQ, and a mech after. This results in the mech not attacking on the day after due to positioning, so you just get hit by two weakened infantry. This gives your mech more HP and it's easier to finish the capture.

[Dragon Fogel]

T1: Extreme Edge - 9 days - 338

110 Speed, 78 Power, 150 Technique.

Basically just rushed the HQ with a T-Copter, using a B-Copter and two Dusters for support.

Edit:

T11: Star Islands - 9 days - 355

110 Speed, 95 Power, 150 Technique.

...actually, the writeup is pretty much the same as the above. Only noteworthy thing is you have to stop an HQ capture from Greyfield.

Clearing this map unlocks T6: Clear Island.

[GipFace]

Also, on my test run on Land's End, I *almost* had an open HQ capture; if I'd been able to get one space closer with my T-Copter I would have made it.

Did you try landing? The AI will make 3 or 4 antiairs the moment you land because there is a t-copter in the vicinity. I got the t-copter to land on day 10 but then the antiairs spawned. I think the HQ rush is impossible. >_<

One interesting idea is that a T-Copter in the zone can take a direct fighter hit, and an attached Fighter can take the first strike from the enemy yet still come out on top. I don't know if that will lead to anything, though.

[Dragon Fogel]

That's just it. I *did* land, with my infantry *four* spaces away from the HQ.

Then on its next two turns, the AI built nothing near the HQ. Just War Tanks from the west base.

Then next turn - two units near the HQ. >_<

Destroying their transport copter seemed to help, it skewed their rebuilding priorities and I think delayed the fighter from being built.

Granted, maybe if I'd been able to get the infantry in range, they would have gone all anti-air crazy. But geez, that was so frustratingly close.

[DTaeKim]

I think I'm going to begin compiling a walkthrough for Trial Maps.

I'll give credit to the lot of you for your walkthroughs.

I've updated the scores to reflect the ones in this topic, and I've added max scores if available to the map.

[Dragon Fogel]

T25: Land's End - 19 days - 337

105 Speed, 124 Power, 108 Technique

Just built up an army and pushed to the HQ this time.

Edit: By the way, I was messing around on Triangle Lake earlier and got up to 290. Also, I have 450 on Cat Island too.

Working on Destiny Ocean at the moment. A fast win seems possible if the AI builds the right units, but I haven't been able to pull it off.

Basically - day 1, build an infantry. This is just to take Lin's nearby city. Day 2, lander and bike; day 3, move the lander near the base and load the bike in, build a tank. Day 4, load CO into the tank and load the tank into the lander, then just move forward and unload ASAP (on Day 6).

It seems that the AI needs to build a mech on Day 4 and a sub on Day 5. I'm not sure if it's going to work, though, as I haven't gotten the right movement since it occured to me to send a bike. (I got decent movement on earlier tries with an infantry, but couldn't pull it off.)

[Dragon Fogel]

T30: Destiny Ocean - 19 days - 345

105 Speed, 118 Power, 122 Technique

Okay, I didn't manage the fast win I was looking for on Destiny Ocean, but I *was* able to use that opening to take one of Lin's ports quickly, and managed to get things working from there.

First, I move the lander one south, one east of the east port; this way, the tank can still be loaded into it the turn after it's built, and I can move the bike towards there. This lets me unload at Lin's east port.

After loading the lander, build an infantry to help with capturing the east properties. Next, you want to work on building a tank, Medium Tank, and another lander. They'll be reinforcements.

On Day 6, with no mech built, Lin will either build a sub and recon or a War Tank and Gunboat. You want the former. (You can't see the sub, but you can tell because you won't see it but a lot of money will be spent.)

Unload at Lin's east port, tank north, bike east. Next day, your lander will be attacked by the sub and trapped by the gunboat. Delete it and start capturing the port. Attack whatever with the tank, just keep it out of range of enemy tanks as much as possible.

Don't capture the other port, it's useful for getting Lin to build an expensive naval unit instead of a War Tank.

From there, it was a bunch of messing around. My bike went down to 5 HP, but I was able to clear the HQ area and block Lin's base, and started capturing anyways... However, I was able to rout on the last day of the capture anyhow.

This unlocks T31: Comb Map.

[Dragon Fogel]

T31 is the Battle of the Leaders, it seems. You're Brenner against Forsythe, Greyfield, and... Caulder.

Actually, Caulder only starts with five properties (HQ, base, three ports), so maybe it won't be so bad... plus, it's probably a free-for-all like the other 3/4-player Trial Maps so far. So hopefully Forsythe and Greyfield will help you out a bit against him.

Greyfield looks to be the main threat at the start, having two Medium Tanks and a bunch of bikes right up in your face. You start with two Artillery, but they're a good deal away, so you'll have to deploy units to stop Greyfield from taking your HQ early.

[GipFace]

T30 - Destiny Ocean
EDIT: My score sucks.

[Dragon Fogel]

T21: Duo Falls - 23 days - 242

83 Speed, 92 Power, 67 Technique.

Lousy score overall. No special strategy, just a general push forward while capturing as much as possible along the way. It's easy enough to just finish; doesn't unlock anything, though.

[GipFace]

T31 - Comb Map
25/417
Speed 150 (Wow!)
Power 123
Technique 144
EDIT: This map has since been 450ed by me, see page 11 for additional notes

Greyfield defeated on day 17
Caulder defeated on day 21
Forsythe defeated on day 25

First you have to hold off Greyfield's invasion by placing an infantry and a mech on day 2 as a shield with an attached antitank for added defense. After you hold it off, head towards the nearby airport. After you capture it, head towards Greyfield while spamming bombers. There should be a ground taskforce of 3 tanks, 1 antiair in case he builds a chopper, and a rig with the infantry that will capture the HQ. Save your CO power for later. Do not be tempted in using the expensive tanks since they cannot travel through all those woods.

Do not build any navy yet since Caulder's navy will tear you a new one. If necessary, use bikes to gum up the north seaports so that Forsythe doesn't land any units in your territory.

Greyfield should go down easily provided you brought three tanks. If all you brought were bombers, you'll lose since he'll spam antiair. Time it so that you build the t-copter after the third bomber. Once you finish capping, the t-copter should be in prime position to pick up the infantry.

Caulder's broken zone is actually a benefit, and you'll never be privy to his broken abilities. All of Caulder's units should be ravaging Forsythe, leaving his HQ relatively undefended. By this time you should have 5 bombers to take out any antiair that spawns at his base near the HQ. Compared to Greyfield, he's a cakewalk.

The turn before Caulder is gone, build a lander and rush a bike, two tanks, and your attached antitank towards the lander. It'll take some battleship shelling, but what's important is that the antitank must survive and one of the two bikes must be healthy.

Once Caulder is gone, rush all the bombers to the left side and spam battleships with the surplus money you have. You also have a base in vicinity of Forsythe's right base. Take the lander, load it with a bike and a tank, and head towards Forsythe. Hit him as hard as you can with the bombers and battleships. Damage healthy units over destroying weak ones, since you'll want nothing strong around the HQ.

You will not have enough units to surround your capping bike. This is where your CO power comes in. If your bike cannot capture in two turns, you messed up, but I don't know if a 26 day victory would net you 150 speed as well.

Finishing this marathon (which I thought was harder than C25 by far) gives you T32 Resistance, a small predeployed map with 5 silos and a com tower. I should finish it within the hour.

[Dragon Fogel]

...okay, I took another look at Comb Map and realized that in addition to the above, Forsythe has ports *on my front line*.

I get the feeling this map is going to be a pain. I have to fend off an immediate threat from Greyfield, and get ready to deal with incoming naval forces from Forsythe and Caulder, *and* a bomber from Greyfield. And that's just the predeployeds!

And Caulder's navy will get worse if he builds a CO unit, though thankfully he has little income to start with and his expansion opportunities are rather limited.

I can only hope it's not as bad as it looks, but it's hard to get motivated to start on a map like this.

Edit: Okay, I see Gip Face finished this while I was complaining about it. Well, I'll take another crack at it in a bit, then.

[GipFace]

T32 - Resistance
6/369
Speed 140
Power 106
Technique 123

Three silo hits on turn 2 wipe out most of the enemy army to 1HP, and the other two silos take care of the stragglers. Yawn. I lost one unit, though.

Yeah, this is kind of a low score for me, but whatever.

Beating this gets T33 Missile, a super-small 10x10 predeployed map where they outnumber you 12 units to 8. After the marathon that was T31, you'd think they'd provide something harder...

[GipFace]

T33 - Missile
6/377
Speed 140
Power 104
Technique 133

Come on, do you really need a walkthrough for this? Attach Brenner to an infantry on day two and launch the right silo at the enemy cluster. Caulder does not attach himself to a unit, so you don't have to worry at all.

T34 is Web River, a 27x21 4P map with fog. The enemies are not stacked with units, so it's probably easier than T31.

[Dragon Fogel]

T31: Comb Map - 29 days -378

142 Speed, 117 Power, 119 Technique

I didn't do this as fast as GipFace. Caulder lasted quite a while, and left Forsythe devastated. Neither of them was able to do too much to me, though; they were busy fighting each other.

Edit: (Fixed map number above.)

T32: Resistance - 6 days - 342

140 Speed, 96 Power, 106 Technique.

Easy map, overall.

[GipFace]

The day limit for Comb Map is probably 26 or 27, then. Too bad the quicksave disappears once you finish the map.

EDIT: Saw your score for T32. I wonder what you're doing differently from me, because it seems that you consistently get less power and technique...